(Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 244). Large 8vo. lii, 388pp, 2 b&w illustrations. Red cloth. A fine clean copy, still in its shrink-wrap. ISBN 2503540872 ***William of Malmesbury's Commentary on Lamentations is one of the rare works of biblical commentary produced by an English Benedictine in the twelfth century. Surviving complete in a single manuscript, and in burnt fragments of another, it is here edited for the first time. Although the work is explicitly based upon the ninth-century commentary by Paschasius, it is enriched by William's own wide and deep reading of the Bible,...View More...

(Boydell medieval Texts.) 8vo. lx, 154pp. Soft covers. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 1783271965 ***Written c 1135, an important document in the history of Marian devotion in medieval Europe. An English translation.View More...

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